This Week's Letter
Radio Station KPFT
419 Lovett Blvd.
Houston, TX 77006
Enclosed is a one-dollar donation. I hope you get a lot of letters about the Morning Meditation Program
C-redacted
P.S. I am 14 years old.
Editor's Note
This week's mail comes undated, but was located in a folder named 1976-78. Perhaps a future Schedule Reconstruction will narrow the date down to when morning meditation was on the air, but for the time being this is a nice reminder that KPFT has offered something for everyone and many of those listeners have contributed what they were able to keep the station on the air.
As always, comments, corrections, and additions are welcome. Contact Us
About The Mailbag
The letters posted here were among the boxes recovered from 419 Lovett Blvd, as documented in The Mighty 90 Project post and are reminiscent of the work done at Found Magazine and PostSecret. The vast majority of letters date from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, although some newer materials of more recent vintage have been supplied by programmers.
Historically KPFT would, on occasion, read letters on the air and in some cases the letter writers explicitly ask NOT to be so presented. Attitudes towards consent and personal privacy are very different in 2022 as compared to the time these letters were mailed and no one then writing could have imagined the modern internet, much less this type of public sharing.
Accordingly, whenever a letter has personally identifiable information from a correspondent it will be lightly redacted to protect the privacy of the original author.
